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How Iceland helped astronauts reach the Moon

It is 50 years since the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon but few people realise the role played by Iceland in helping get them there.

In the early 1960s Nasa scientists searched the world to find a training landscape that resembled the Moon and decided the lunar landscape was strikingly similar to the lava desert just outside H煤sav铆k, a quiet fishing community on Iceland鈥檚 northern coast.

麻豆社 Travel Show's Cat Moh went to find out more.

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